THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Study Claims Anti-Semitism Neo-Nazis Debate Protocols'
NEW YORK — A report simplifying in a way that
in France A Major Threat
by the World Jewish Con- revealed Hitler's ignorance

NEW YORK (JTA) — Re-
surgent anti-Semitism in
France could escalate into a
threat to the entire French
Jewish community in the
event of a political or eco-
nomic crisis, according to a
study prepared by the
French scholar Eric Ben-
mergui.
The 400-page study,
which is summarized in the
latest issue of "Eurofacts,"
published by the Paris office
of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, pin-
`Dinted the upsurge in
anti-Jewish feeling to the
aftermath of the Six-Day
War in 1967 and declared
that one of the root causes of
present day anti-Semitism
is the rise and increasing

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influence of rightwing ex-
tremist elements in the
country.
Furthermore, Jews were
threatened by terrorists
from both the right and left,
who sometimes join .forces,
the study said, citing evi-
dence of cooperation be-
tween Palestinian ter-
rorists and neo-Nazis.
Pointing out that there
were 235 separate reported
incidents of anti-Semitism
in France in 1980 — cul-
minating in the Rue Coper-
nic synagogue bombing —
and that perpetrators
largely go unpunished,
Benmergui called on the
French government to take
far-reaching countermea-
sures.

Mourners Support Group
Organized by Pa. Rabbi

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)

A Pennsylvania Conser-
vative rabbi has reported
that he has organized a
self-help group in a
synagogue to make it possi7
ble for mourners in Ms con-
gregation to have assurance
of support in their bereave-
ment of "the communal as-
pect" of being comforted.
Rabbi Gershon Schwartz,
of Congregation Tiferet Is-
rael of Bensalem, Pa. said
he had used the model of the
havura to develop Hevrat
Nehama, literally "Fellow-
ship of Comfort," at his
synagogue last year.
Rabbi Schwartz felt that
some kind of structure was
needed to apply to the needs
of mourners "the relatively
new concept of self-help," in
which "the basic premise" is
that "an individual finds
comfort in discovering that
he is not alone" in such
times of stress. "He vents
his concerns and identifies
with others who share his
problem."

COLPA Official
Hails Decision
of Appeals Court

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The decision of a federal
court of appeals upholding
the constitutionality of a
Minnesota state law per-
mitting parents of religious
school students to claim de-
ductions from their state in-
come taxes for tuition and
other educational expenses
will probably be upheld by
the United States Supreme
Court in any appeal, accord-
; to Howard Zuckerman,
.,airman of the National
Jewish Commission on Law
and Public Affairs,
(COLPA).
Under the Minnesota
law, adopted in 1955, par-
ents of students attending
public and private schools
in that state, North and
South Dakota, Iowa or Wis-
consin may deduct up to
$500 for each dependent in
grades kindergarten-six,
and up to $700 for those in
grades seven-12 for tuition,
textbooks and transporta-
tion costs.

The first meeting at-
tracted 10 congregants, ac-
cording to Rabbi Schwartz.
Since then, the group has
met on several occasions
and much progress has been
made in comforting those
who were grieving.

gress reveals that neo-Nazis
are beginning to concede
that "the story of a world
conspiracy by the 'Elders of
Zion' is nonsense."
In the view of some neo-
Nazi theoreticians, the
study reports, Hitler, re-
garded the "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion" as a pillar of
his propagandist warfare. It
is now seen as having failed
the only test he recognized,
the test of expediency.

of the world." As such, he
argues that Hitler cannot be
cited in support of the neo-
Nazi position by "those who
may fancy that the solution
of the Jewish question as a
world problem affecting all
nations could be attempted
by way of physical extinc-
tion of Jewish life."

One of the foremost Ger-
man neo-Nazi intellectuals,
Dr. Gert Sudholt, explains
that the lie did not serve its
purpose since it proved to be
"far removed from reality."
Sudholt reaches this con-
clusion in a commentary on
Hitler's wills, "Adolf Hit-
ler's Drei Testamente," pub-
lished by the neo-Nazi Druf-
fel Verlag.
The constant harping on
an "international conspi,
racy of Jewry and
capitalism," says Sudholt,
was "subjective and over-

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Pennsylvania communities,
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town, have been named
winners of the United
Jewish Appeal's Pinhas
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In its 1981 campaign, the
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JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
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percent of the Israeli public
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LOS ANGELES (JTA)
"Shirim," a new Jewish an 80-year-old building that
poetry journal, is now ac- the city plans to demolish.
cepting submissions for its
premiere issue, scheduled
for publication this fall.
Rabbi Mark Dworkin, the
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